(65) Cybele, personal way of seeing things

(65) Cybele is a cybele asteroid discovered in March of 1861. It was spotted without being identified in December of 1949.

The orbit is between the main belt and Jupiter. It has a perihelion of 3.04 AU and an aphelion of 3.80 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.42 AU. It has an orbital period of 6 years and 127 days. It has an inclination of 3.5º. It has a diameter of about 273 km.

Photometric observations were taken in the years 1983, 1985 and 2004. There were star occultations in October of 1979, August of 2008 and October of 2009.

Orbital resonance:
4:7 with Vesta (99.9%)
11:16 with Juno (99.9%)
6:7 with Europa (99.8%)

 
Greek mythology

At first, the name chosen to call this asteroid was "Maximiliana" in honor to the King Maximilian II of Bavaria. But at that time, by convention, asteroids received classical mythological names and many astronomers protested.

In a hunting day, in which it began to rain, Atalanta and Hippomenes took refuge in a temple of Cybele and made love there, enraging the goddess for doing so in a sacred place. Cybele transformed them in male lions and sentenced them to look each at a diferent side so that they never would be able to see each other again. 

(65) Cybele is related with the beliefs and structures of thought that determine the philosophy and personal way of seeing things.

"Source Code" (2011)

  

"Walk of Shame" (2013)